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History
The Navision Company was founded in 1984 in Denmark.
In 2000, Navision Software A/S merged with fellow
Danish firm Damgaard A/S to form NavisionDamgard A/S.
Later the name was changed to Navision A/S.
On 11 July 2002 Microsoft bought Navision A/S to go with its
previous
acquisition of
Great Plains.
The new division
in Microsoft was named Microsoft Business Solutions
and also
included Microsoft
CRM. In September 2005 Microsoft rebranded the product and
re-released it as
Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, with new role-based GUI, was released in
2008.
Microsoft originally planned
to develop an
entirely new ERP system (Project green),
but has decided to
continue
development of all ERP systems (Dynamics AX,
Dynamics
NAV,
Dynamics GP and
Dynamics SL).
All
four ERP systems have been launched with the same new role
based user
interface, SQL based reporting and analysis,
Share Point based
portal, Pocket PC
based mobile clients and clients for
Microsoft Office.
Also
known
as
Navision has gone through several name changes as the
original Navision Company
or Microsoft has tried to decide
on how it should be
marketed. The names
"Navision Financials", "Navision
Attain", "Microsoft Business Solutions Navision Edition", and
the current (2007) "Microsoft Dynamics NAV" have all been used to
refer to this product.
Versions
Current version Dynamics Nav 2009 in 2 editions as well as multiple
language versions.The 2 editions are classic (same look and
feel as version 5) and role taylored client (RTC). Older
versions range from 2.0 to 5.0.
Accreditations
As accredited by ICAEW
(GB version 4) -
please see ICAEW
software
accreditation
site and details of accreditation here.
Licensing
NAV is licensed by Business Ready License comes in two versions:
Business
Essentials (BE) and Advance Management (AM).
The product gives administrators the option of using either a
native
database server or Microsoft SQL Server, as the DBMS. Native
database
performance degrades rapidly with increases in size.
Who
would use Nav?
Nav is a scalable ERP solution with options to purchase and use some or
all of
the available modules / functions. This would allow an
organisation to
use the base
ledgers (general, sales, purchase and fixed asset ledgers)
or use Nav
as the
complete business operating system through using the
manufacturing
module, for
example.
So Nav can be used by businesses with a turnover ranging from
£1m to £2bn!
Competitor
finance applications (examples only)
Comparable and also owned by Microsoft – Great Plains (GP), Solomon (SL)
Comparable but not owned by Microsoft – JD Edwards, SAP Business 1
Larger scale – SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft
Smaller scale – Microsoft Accounting 2008 (Professional and Express),
Sage,
QuickBooks.
One point to note: the finance application market is showing
signs of all
applications
meeting in the middle ground. The larger scale
applications are
being redesigned
to fit the middle ground and the
functionality of the
smaller
applications is very comparable to those in the middle ground.
The only
difference will be scalability and how many users need
access.
Licence
sales and support
Nav licensing is sold through Solution Centres, a network of global
businesses
known in Microsoft circles as the indirect selling chain.
So Nav cannot be purchased direct from Microsoft and cannot
be purchased on
line. All initial enquiries through the Microsoft web site are managed
through
referrals process via the indirect selling chain. So the business
requesting more information is allocated a Solution Centre.
This Solution Centre
may
provide a full range of Nav services or just enable licence
acquisition. There are a number of these Solution Centres across
the UK.
Licence
prices are fixed by Microsoft and there will be an annual maintenance
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